Re: Why Are There No 'Killer' Java Apps ?

From: Matt Parker's Dog Catcher (mattNODAMNSPAM_at_dog.catcher)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 19:29:08 -0600

Hamilcar Barca wrote:
> In article <409cac56$0$20827$db0fefd9@news.zen.co.uk> (Sat, 08 May
> 2004 10:47:06 +0100), Matt Parker wrote:
>
>> OpenOffice
>> [...]
>>
>> Four apps written in Java that I couldn't live without right there.
>
> OpenOffice isn't written in Java.

You're talking to a brick wall. Matt is a "Java expert" with a
consulting business from which he makes his living dumb
schmucks. He believes that this link he posted in his reply
to me earlier is proof Office is written in Java:

http://api.openoffice.org/docs/java/ref/overview-summary.html

Matt believes these newsgroups are populated by mostly
non-developers and, therefore, had hoped we would not
have been able to point him to these:

http://udk.openoffice.org/java/man

http://udk.openoffice.org/common/man/uno.html

Matt does not seem to understand what API bindings
are. He also believes that the ability to have extensions
written in other languages implies the main program
incorporates those other languages natively. Matt
also does not realize that OpenOffice does not require
J2RE installed. Matt is also blind and is not able to
read the OpenOffice source code freely available
for download.

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